Community Database
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An inbuilt community for sharing data, suppliers and KPI benchmarking
CirclePOS saves retailers time by significantly reducing data entry. Bookdata including images, descriptions, and videos is available to all stores within the community with the scan of a barcode.
Learn more about the Community Database Features.
Join with other independents just like you and share a database with award winning bookstores.
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An integrated website providing a rich online presence mirroring everything you can do in store with no extra cost or work
Optimized for bookshops the website updates itself as part of regular stock control while integrated CRM tools help you engage effectively with customers, boosting sales.
Learn more about the features of the Integrated Website
Complete Stock Control
CirclePOS integrates your customer database and sales reports into the stock management system. Taking care of purchase ordering, inwards goods, special orders and returns with the click of a button.
More on Stock Control
Learn about the Special Order Follow-up Feature
Loyalty
The Customer Relationship Management system integrates with the loyalty scheme. Storing customers product interests, personal details, and loyalty points in one place.
Learn about the CirclePOS no-strings attached loyalty programme.
The CirclePOS Promotions Tool with Discount Codes for Bookstores is a handy feature that lets bookstores craft personalised online promotions tailored for specific target audiences using discount codes.
Read about how bookstores can use loyalty in promotions
Learn about the CirclePOS Gift Card programme
Sales Reporting
A dashboard overview of fully itemised sales reports by day or hour sits alongside category, publisher, staff and Circle community reports, comparing results with the previous week and year.
See more on Sales Reporting
Accounts Receivable & Payable
Manage accounts receivable and payable from your store's Backoffice. Invoice-based payments and part payments, the ability to pay multiple invoices at once, and our Xero integration will help you to balance your books seamlessly.
Accounts Receivable & Payable
Supports any Product
CirclePOS extends beyond books. You can set up any product code to manage the sales of magazines, stationary, giftware and anything else with a barcode. Learn more about selling other products in your bookstore
Multi-Platform
CirclePOS is compatible with PC, Mac or Linux, while the cloud-based Backoffice and eCommerce website can be managed remotely from a computer, tablet or a smart-phone.
Work from anywhere with Multi-Platform capabilities
Group Functions
Multiple stores can be managed through Circle with either individual or amalgamated reporting and accounts for stores. Group functions include:
- Group Portal: Central site for reporting and managing group deals.
- Individual Store Systems: Each store has its own inventory and website, integrated with a central group portal.
- Group Categorization and Pricing: Centralized system for setting category and pricing defaults.
- Quick Setup for New Stores: Clone tool for fast store setup.
- Customer Roaming: Unified customer identity for loyalty, gift cards, and accounts across stores.
- Stock Transfer and Order Management: Tracked transfers and merged purchase orders for efficiency.
- Group Deals and Reporting: Centralized purchasing options and comprehensive group-wide reporting.
For more details, visit CirclePOS for Groups and Franchises
All the Software Integrations you need
Integrations provide our customers with the most user friendly, cost effective product possible. See our current integrations.
A cloud based low maintenance system accessed from anywhere
A cloud-based Point of Sale (POS) system offers several advantages for bookstores. Accessibility is the #1 benefit of a cloud application, you can work from anywhere and your customers can buy from anywhere. I greatly extends your reach and provides you and your team with flexibility.Interact with all stakeholders more easily and stay connected with your team, and your customers, no matter where they are. Read about why a cloud based multi platform system is better for your bookstore
Ongoing development
With over 25 years making software for bookshops we have an impressive track record working for independents.
Every month we publish the upgrades, new features and improvements that have been going on behind the scenes at CirclePOS.